For many years, Chile has benefited from two surveys of labor force developments for the “Greater Santiago Area.” One of these surveys dates back to the 1950s and is conducted by the University of Chile. The other is a national survey, conducted by the National Institute of Statistics (NIS),...

Gross Domestic Product by Region shows how economic activity has evolved in each region of the country. In this document, the Central Bank of Chile presents the methodology and results of the series of the Gross Domestic Product by Region for the years 1996-2004. This series is based on the...

The gradual and uniform reduction of the general ad valorem import tariff has been a fundamental part in Chile’s global trade liberalization process, initiated in previous decades. This reduction was strengthened with the implementation of Free Trade Agreements with Chile’s main trade...

This paper introduces a coherent set of statistics that allows close monitoring of the Central Bank’s foreign exchange interventions, its international reserves situation, its foreign currency exposure, and its consolidated foreign liquidity position with the Central Government. The set of...

Central banks’ communication policies have changed dramatically over the last decades. They have moved from being very secretive to much more transparency with a special emphasis on communications. This is not only related to a cultural change in the society at large that demands more...

The new 2008 benchmark compilation for measuring national accounts establishes the statistical framework to compile the main macroeconomic variables of the Chilean economy. This new benchmark introduces several innovations in both methods and sources of information with respect to the previous...

This paper presents the methodological changes that the Central Bank of Chile introduces into the balance of payments statistics and international investment position from March 2012, accompanied by spliced series starting in 2003. These changes are associated with the incorporation of new...

This paper presents the methodology for measuring the sectoral interlinkages or from-whom-towhom matrices for deposits and loans covering the period 2008-2012. In addition, the results are presented as networks which allow relationships to be analyzed between different sectors. These matrices...

The main objective of this working paper is presents the Social Accounting Matrix (SAM) 2008, based on official Chilean national accounts published in 2011 and 2012. Besides, this work allows three complementary objectives, did not found in most of the SAMs publications: a) including non...

Inflation expectations are usually obtained from the swaps market or from the so called inflation insurance. Often times both measures give similar results, however, given the difference in the settlement structure these results may differ. This document presents the settlement structure of...